A newly formed anti-crime advocacy group is urging anyone with information to help Nassau County police find the suspect who stabbed two people over the weekend in Hempstead, one of them fatally.

The Law Enforcement Alliance, a two-month-old collaboration between local civic leaders and former NYPD investigators who live in the village, issued the latest in a series of calls for tips Monday on Lawson Street, where the stabbings occurred.

“We want to bridge the gap between the community and the police,” Corey Pegues, a recently retired city police inspector who lives near the crime scene, told reporters Monday. “There’s just not enough police…they can’t be everywhere.”

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation into the Sunday morning stabbings that left a man dead and an 18-year-old woman hospitalized in critical condition. Neither victims’ name was released, nor have police announced any arrests in the case.

“The neighborhoods don’t take care of each other the way they used to,” said Valerie McFadden, a Uniondale school worker. “We need to work together. Everyone plays a role.”

Dennis Jones, a retired NYPD detective and co-founder of the alliance, acknowledged that the group is facing an uphill battle as they also plan an online campaign to combat the “stop snitching” mentality that stymies police investigations by discouraging witnesses from coming forward.

“We’re not blind to the fact that people in these communities don’t want to talk to the police,” he said. “Now it’s time to make sure that we fix this place.”

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.